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Family, kinship, memory and temporality in the age of the new genetics.

Social science & medicine (1982) - 1 Sept 2005

Finkler Kaja

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The new genetics has now become an integral part of contemporary biomedicine, promising great advances in alleviating disease. Like any scientific endeavor, beliefs in the new genetics tend to give new meanings to people's lives and therefore have significant implications for people's lived experience. Drawing on fieldwork in the USA and research in various literatures, the aim of this article is to explore the...

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PMID: 15955406
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.01.002

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